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the best in terms of healthcare. There are numerous other echelons of society, however, that receive healthcare in somewhat dimin...

the expansion of the industry was based on a business model-getting people well and making a profit doing it-rather than on doing ...

is relevant here is that the authors note that the goal of a CEO performance appraisal should be to link its results to the execut...

under-five mortality and a decrease in the number of children who are fully vaccinated (Ambrose, 2006). Furthermore, the problem i...

vary somewhat from state to state, juvenile justice typically has a similar protocol. At the time a juvenile is arrested, a decis...

the poverty line. These researchers point out that the poor are less likely to have health insurance, less likely to seek health s...

the fact that Americans demand extraordinary health care but refuse to pay for it; that medical science is now able to extend life...

But Romanov notes that the problem with todays system is that family care and primary care physicians are little more than gatekee...

trouble is, no one seems to want to point the finger at the cause. In fact, there is no one person, organization, or government ag...

regimes and goals are instituted to bring about change that is viewed to be best for the people involved (Oberle and Allen, 2002)....

are intrinsically connected to behaviors that cope with stress factors in the environment (Roy, 1999). The goal within this nursi...

problems with its water supplies as extensive deforestation has taken place over the last century which have taken its toll on the...

the people involved (Oberle and Allen, 2002). The principal focus of the simultaneity paradigm is on the clients perspectives of t...

medical education, it changed all aspects of medical care and the relationships that exist between physician and patient (pp. 395)...

in the world where health care is able to benefit from the best and the latest technologies (Improving Quality in a Changing Healt...

its critics -- has been a goal of the U.S. government for many, many years and, for the most part, has had the support of most of ...

providers fees be "normal and customary," and those care providers who have attempted to set lower fees for those without any safe...

at least not accessing the system as much as they could. For example, it was reported in BMJ that a telephone healthcare service o...

from an advanced practice nurse. Patients value the nurse practitioner (NP) as a trustworthy source of medical information that a...

and others is becoming more and more diverse. Mwaura (2006) emphasizes that every culture has experienced a similar evolu...

reform is the American Health Choices Plan. In it she addresses costs and quality and hits on topics such as long term care, canc...

desire for the latest developments (The managed care evolution, 2004). Unfortunately, super-sophisticated medical technology is e...

radiologist must travel to a rural hospital to examine the images (Gamble et al, 2004). If he or she cant travel, then a courier w...

the rise, more people are needing the drug therapies to help with controlling the disease (Buono, 2008). Its estimated that diabet...

any unlawful or inappropriate use. Nor may such use result in "personal financial gain or the benefit of any third party", waste ...

and they want guidance to improve their conditions and diseases Canton (2007) reminds the reader that technology has changed eve...

a company rather than career corrections officers, they are underpaid, demoralized, and the turnover is high (Friedmann, 1999). Pr...

of a minimum wage. As will be discussed below, the same principles apply to health care, not because there is any market-level co...

the "niche were multiple members encounter and respond to disease and illness across the life course" (Denham, 2003, p. 143). Nurs...

and simply "more territory to cover overall" (McConnell, 2005, p. 177). In response to this downsizing trend, the best defense tha...